Hanger River (also transliterated Angar River) is a river in west central
Ethiopia. It is a west-flowing
tributary of the
Didessa River, itself a tributary of the
Blue Nile (also called the
Abay River in Ethiopia). The Hanger enters the Didessa approximately halfway between the town of
Nek'emte and the village of
Cherari at a latitude and longitude of .
Tributaries of the Hanger include the
Wajja, Alata, and Ukke rivers.
Father
António Fernandes was the first European recorded to have seen the Hanger, crossing the river in 1613 as he sought a way south from Ethiopia to
Malindi.
Herbert Weld-Blundell
Herbert Joseph Weld Blundell (1852 – 5 February 1935) was an English traveller in Africa, archaeologist, philanthropist and yachtsman. He shortened his surname from Weld Blundell to Weld, in 1924.
Life to 1922
He was educated at Stonyhurst C ...
, "Exploration in the Abai Basin, Abyssinia", ''Geographical Journal'', 27 (1906), p. 538
See also
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List of Ethiopian rivers
References
Rivers of Ethiopia
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